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BURIAL GASKETU Patented Aug. 14, 1883.

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UNITED STATES J OHN MAXWELL AN D HENRY F. QUINT,

PATENT OF ICE.

OF ONEIDA, NEW YORK; SAID MA L WELL ASSIGNOR TO OHAPBELL, CHASE, MAXWELL ANDOOMPANY, on

SAME PLACE.

' BUR IAL-CASKET.

"SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 283,002, dated i Application filed October aeiss. (Model) nection with the accompanying. drawings, is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention consists chiefly in dividing the casket-lid transversely, and hinging the respective sections thereof to the side of the casket, thereby combining 'thr'ee styles of lids-viz., the so-called quarter-opening, three-quarter-opening, and entire-openi11g.lidswhich allows either end of the easket to be used for the head portion, and affords ready access toany part of the interior of the casket. v l

The invention also consists in a novel combination of a sliding face-glass with lid-sections, hinged on the casket, as aforesaid, all as hereinafter more fully explained, and set forth in the claims.

Referring to the annexed drawings, Figure 1 is an isometric view of the top portion of a burial-casket, showing our improved lid, in

1 positionfor exposing the face of the corpse.

Fig. 2 is a longitudinal vertical section of the same when closed. Fig. 3 is a transverse section through the head-section of thelid, and Fig. 4:, a transverse section through the footsection of the lid, showing the arrangement of the sliding face-glass.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

0 represents the usual top or lid frame, which is generally detachably secured to the top of the casket, its connection therewith being so,

well understood by those conversant with the construction of caskets as to render it unnecessary to here illustratethe same. Saidtop frame is provided with a single central opening extending from the head to the foot of the casket. I

we hinge, independently of each other, to the side of the top frame 0, so as to allow either or both of said sections to swing upward and outward to the side of the casket. The free edge of the sections A and B'is provided with a suit- August 14, 18 83.

able catch, d, adapted to engage with a latch, Z,

on the casket-top O. The lid thus constructed admits of opening either end of the casket, and

therefore allows either end to beused for the head portion, and by dividing the lid, as aforesaid, the large hinged section B can be used as 'a three-quarter-opening lid, or the smaller hinged section A may be" used as a quarteropening lid, andwhen it is desired the entire lid can be opened with the greatest facility.

The under side of the large section B is provided with parallel longitudinal ways a, on which slides the face-glass b, vwhich is of proper size to cover the smaller end portion of the opening in the frame 0, said portion of the opening being provided around its edges with a ledge or rabbet, r, to support the face-glass when drawn'out from under the lid-section B. c is a springbar attached to the" under side of the foot-section B, and bearing with its free end on the face-glass, to hold the same and prevent its rattling when slid underneath the foot-section of the lid.

Having described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isl 3.

l. The combination of the'top frame, G,having a central opening extcndingfrom the head to the foot of the casket, and the lid composed of sections A and B, hinged, independently of each other, to the side of frame 0, substantially as described and shown, for the purpose set forth.

2.; The combination of the top frame, 0, have ing a central opening extending from the head to the foot of the casket, and provided with,

the ledge 0' around one end of said opening, the lid divided transversely, and having its sections hinged to the side of the frame 0, the

way a, secured to the under side of the lid-section B, and the face-glass b, sliding on said way and ledge, all constructed and combined substantially in the manner shown and set fortl1.- A and B denote the lid, which is divided 

